Walz’s Campaign Trail Includes Stories of Helping With Lice on Facetime, Talking About the Perils of Gutters

When Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz to beryllium her moving mate for this November’s statesmanlike election, astir Americans had nary thought who the Minnesota politician really was. But arsenic radical extracurricular of Minnesota get to cognize Walz, it’s becoming wide done a torrent of stories shared online that he’s 1 of the astir likable politicians around. Why? He conscionable seems similar a precise mean and benignant person. And it’s hard to find a sharper opposition betwixt Donald Trump and his vice statesmanlike moving mate JD Vance than “normal and kind.”

Yes, Trump and Vance are intelligibly frustrated with being called “weird,” a verbal jab against modern Republicans that was archetypal popularized by Walz. But Trump and Vance are intelligibly stumped astir however to deed back. Because each caller time online seems to present an anecdote oregon communicative from Walz that makes him look some relatable and caring. And aft years of Trumpism dominating the headlines with an ideology built connected cruelty and humiliation, a feline similar Walz is highly refreshing.

Take an aged communicative astir Walz that started going viral connected Wednesday. Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant politician of Minnesota, was interviewed by Politico astir the information that she would go the archetypal Native American pistillate to beryllium politician of immoderate state. At the extremity of the interview, Flanagan told a communicative astir however Walz helped her erstwhile her kid got lice.

From Politico:

I heard you accidental that your girl was discovered to person lice the time aft the 2018 election. Can you stock however the recently elected Walz-Flanagan summons handled that aboriginal crisis?

My archetypal instinct was to telephone Congressman Tim Walz, besides governor-elect Tim Walz, to say, “Help, my kid has lice, and I don’t cognize what to do.” So that was interesting. But helium was amazing. I was ace freaked out. We’d ne'er dealt with it before. Siobhan was a full trooper.

He said, “Go to Target, and past FaceTime maine from the aisle.” And truthful I did. He had maine amusement each the antithetic shampoos and stuff. He was like, “This is the 1 that you get.” And past he’s like, “Once you get home, FaceTime maine again.” So I FaceTimed him again from the bathroom, arsenic I’m picking nits retired of my child’s hair. And helium was astonishing and coached maine done the full thing, and that is who Tim Walz is.

It’s the benignant of communicative that we’re proceeding much and much astir Walz implicit the years. As a teacher and coach, helium touched the lives of truthful galore radical arsenic a adjuvant begetter figure, arsenic truthful galore of his erstwhile students archer it. And the service of pro-Trump trolls who are trying to instrumentality him down conscionable don’t recognize his appeal.

The different happening that’s been going viral this week involving Walz is his interrogation with Subway Takes connected TikTok. Walz discusses however important helium thinks bully gutter attraction is. And it’s conscionable the latest illustration of Walz talking astir mean things that mean radical sermon successful their mundane lives.

Meanwhile, Trump continues to station the astir vile things imaginable connected societal media. For example, Trump retweeted an image connected Truth Social that showed Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris with the caption, “Funny however blowjobs impacted some of their careers differently.” The “joke” arsenic it were is that Clinton’s hubby was progressive with a White House intern successful the 1990s and Harris was dating Willie Brown. The close has repeatedly tried to claim, without immoderate evidence, that she lone succeeded professionally due to the fact that she was dating Brown. It’s a communal onslaught from retrograde assholes. But mean radical don’t find it amusing. At slightest they don’t anymore.

The late-night comedians of the 1990s tore Monica Lewinsky to shreds with those kinds of jokes. But present successful the 2020s, the U.S. nationalist sees Lewinsky overmuch otherwise than she was depicted successful precocious 20th-century quality and drama programs. And that’s astir apt wherefore these assholes don’t recognize that they’re the weird ones. Guys similar Trump and Vance are trying to bring America backmost to the 1990s, backmost erstwhile Trump thought helium was blistery crap and Vance was a kid. Both men are trying to crook backmost the clock, from their anserine jokes to their ideas astir reproductive health. But there’s a crushed that Harris has embraced a slogan that truly seems to resonate with astir people: We’re not going back.